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Apple just had their WWDC conference, which was streamed completely online. This is the first time since WWDC began in 2005 that it has been streamlined exclusively online with no in-person event. The video below from The Verge pulls together the Keynote speech in 18...
Google Analytics for Firebase is a free analytics tool used to gain a better understanding of how users interact with your app. It's a great analytics tool for marketers, developers and project managers to help grow and monetise an app. Source Setting up Google...
Are you looking to implement a one-time password (OTP) functionality in an Android app? Android Developers have shared a handy new way to do this. By using the SMS User Consent API you can prompt your users to share a single SMS message containing a one-time password....
Here's a common request we find in an early stage client conversation: "..and we'd like to allow users to message each other" If ever there was a statement that hides complexity it's this one. Messaging sounds simple right? User A send a Message to User B. User B...
There are numerous app analytics tools on the market so how do you choose the right one for your app? To help you find the answer we’ve put together a list of app analytics tools that can support your app in 2020 and beyond. We’re focusing on in-app analytics here but...
Confused by fractional components appearing in your JSON when using unix timestamps? See the custom formatters below for a way to get back to integers if that's what you need for your API JSON is the de facto way of sending and receiving data from APIs these days. And...
We got into a discussion in the office this morning about the use of push notifications, and in particular, how we advise clients on the best use of push. You see, marketing people like the idea of push. They see it as a “channel” to get in touch with their users. But...
Custom CALayer progress indicator Creating custom CALayers in your iOS apps can be very useful, and animating them can add some polish to the final result. CALayers are everywhere in UIKit - every UIView has a layer to draw its contents on. Layers have been around...
What is WASM? WASM is a new standard in web development. It is an assembly-like text format that aims to be byte-code for the web. It does this by allowing other high-level languages to be compiled into a portable executable for your browser. Currently, it is...
A new client came to us recently with a project that would test our ability on app performance. They had a sample iOS app, which loaded a point cloud into a 3D model. They wanted to build a proof of concept app and incorporate this 3D model into it as a nice visual....